Bill Burr Quotes

You have to have a lot of skills when you act; you might not have it when you start, but you definitely end up with a few skills along the way.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.

I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research.

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

It is important for an actor to learn how to face a live audience.

Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.

Giving auditions is a great exercise. They will provide you with a script, and you prepare in 10 minutes. And you perform in front of 100 other people.

I'm taking my time with the acting and learning as I go.

Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

The great thing about acting is that, until you're dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time goes on you hope you get better at, and there are a lot of things that I'm excited to explore.

Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That's what I did.

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

I knew that acting is like anything - you learn from doing it.